Sunday, April 5, 2009

Sunday Bilingual News

From Driggs, Idaho

Dear Friends:

Hello! Welcome to the weekly communication from the Spanish-English Club!

¡Hola! ¡Bienvenidos a la comunicación semanal del Spanish-English Club!In the last few days, again we moved the calendar’s page: April 2009. What kind of picture do you have in April? Myself, I have Liberty with this legend: “America! America! God shed his grace on thee”.

En los últimos días, de nuevo movimos la página del calendario: Abril 2009. ¿Qué clase de imagen tienen ustedes en abril? Yo tengo la Libertad con esta legenda: "¡América! ¡América! Dios derramó su bendición en ti. "I think we are tired because the last seven days included a very long trip from Detroit to Pyongyang with stops in London, Strasbourg, Binghamton and other places. What do you think?

- The week began the previous Sunday with news from Detroit. General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner stepped down due to the pressure of the White House to solve the problems of the car maker. Also Chrysler is pushing to marry Fiat, if it doesn’t want to die. President Obama said Government will not run GM, but…Questions:. What do you think about the Administration conditions to help the U.S. auto industry?. Do you believe it is risky or not as the White House takes direct action about who has to go out of a company?. Do you see similarity in the case of our auto industry with actions of other governments around the world?. Some analysts applauded the initiative of the White House to put the auto industry on the rail. Others worry about the potential negative effects. Could the German Chancellor Angela Merkel take direct action in the same dramatic situation that is facing the people of Opel in Germany?

- El lunes 30 de marzo, las malas noticias acerca de las condiciones del tiempo en la región noroeste del país continuaron a través de los medios y de los titulares de los diarios.Preguntas:. Desde vuestro punto de vista, ¿quién es responsable de todos problemas de inundaciones que son muy frecuentes en diferentes regiones del país: las viejas infraestructuras de diques de los ríos, el recalentamiento de la Tierra, o Dios?- On Tuesday, March 31, President Obama began his first European trip since he arrived at the White House.Questions:.How do you measure the heavy agenda for the first trip of President Obama across Europe?

- El martes 31 de marzo, el Presidente Obama comenzó su primer viaje europeo desde que llegó a la Casa Blanca.Preguntas:. ¿Cómo miden ustedes la pesada agenda del primer viaje del Presidente Obama a través de Europa?- On Wednesday, April 1, the G20 conference began in London with the participation of leaders of twenty different countries, while the people commented about pictures of President Obama with the leaders of Russia and China.Questions:. From your perspective, it is good or bad to open a dialogue with countries that frequently are on the wrong side of the street?. Could you talk with your enemies around a table in a friendly tone and solve differences without atomic bombs?

- El jueves 2 de abril, dos compañías líderes en tecnología desde Nueva York hicieron un importante anuncio referido al sector de cuidado de la salud. En una conferencia de prensa, GE e Intel informaron que están invirtiendo 250 millones de dólares para desarrollar y comercializar tecnologías novedosas para la administración de la vida independiente de ancianos y de enfermedades crónicas.- On Friday, April 3, President Obama spoke to an excited young audience in Strasbourg before the beginning of the NATO meeting. After that he met German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas SarkozyQuestions:. Do you think President Obama was successful in his negotiations with other members of NATO, or that he failed in his goal to receive more support for the Afghanistan war?

- También el viernes, otro hombre armado mató a 13 personas y a él mismo en un paroxismo de violencia en el centro de servicios de inmigración de Binghamton, Nueva York.- In addition, on Friday, the U.S. Labor Department published the unemployment rate of March 2009. It was the highest level since 1983, 8.5%, losing 663,000 more jobs during the last month.

- Además el viernes, el Departamento de Trabajo de los Estados Unidos publicó los índices de desempleo de marzo 2009. Fue el más alto nivel desde 1983, 8,50%, perdiéndose 663.000 más trabajos durante el último mes.- Again the financial week ended with positive results on the Wall Street. It was the fourth week for the growth of stocks in the New York markets. The Dow Jones Industrials Average gained 241.41 points, or 3.10% on the week closing at 8,017.59. In the same period, Nasdaq Composite raised 76.67 points, or 4.96%, closing the week at 1,621.87. Also during the last five days, S&P 500 grew 3.26% and NYSE Composite moved up 4.36%.Questions:. Are you buying stock? During the week, the star of Wall Street markets was a share of Research In Motion, RIMM. The stock for the father of BlackBerry climbed 31.73% closing at $59.29.

The alliance between General Electric and Intel Corporation showed a very positive face in a stressful week. Two companies with previous experience in complex devices and systems decided to put together their knowledge in health-care to embrace a new interesting project.

La alianza entre General Electric e Intel Corporation mostró una cara muy positiva en una semana llena de tensión. Las dos compañías con experiencias previas en complejos dispositivos y sistemas decidieron poner sus conocimientos en cuidado de la salud en forma conjunta para encarar un nuevo interesante proyecto.They want to deploy all the capabilities of the technology to generate a complete home health-care system that gives seniors and chronic patients the possibilities to live in their own environment and feel safe thanks a total control of their cardiovascular disease, diabetes or other sickness problems that require permanent monitoring of the cardiac and respiratory symptoms and vital signals, plus a daily dose of medicine.

Antes de la alianza, General Electric desarrolló su GE QuietCare, sistema de monitoreo remoto de actividad pasiva y conductas de los ancianos, que alerta a los prestadores de salud de los cambios que pueden indicar potenciales problemas de salud o situaciones de emergencia.On the other hand, Intel also developed its Intel Health Guide, a comprehensive personal health system combining an in-home patient device with an online interface to allow clinicians to monitor patients in their homes or other remote locations.

La alianza explorará más posibilidades usando el poder de los nuevos procesadores de Intel, el conocimiento de ambos en dispositivos digitales, y la muy larga experiencia desarrollando grandes sistemas hospitalarios de GE.All the vital signs of the chronic patients will be processed by chips analyzing the small symptoms of emergency and creating a new virtual bridge between doctors and nurses and sick people who don’t want to die driving to the hospital, but they want to enjoy their warm lives in their homes.

About the Club

Spanish-English Club was brought to life in the environment of the Broward County Library between 2005-2006 thanks the initiative of different members of the Fort Lauderdale Library and volunteers.After that, Sunday Bilingual News was implemented as the communication medium for the Spanish-English Club activities.

Next, this digital newspaper grew with the previews of the class materials for the Library sessions.

Now, the Sunday Bilingual News continues growing as educational tool to help non-Spanish speakers in the bilingual experience with the analysis of weekly news and small stories, always including new vocabulary and questions. It is also good material for conversation and writing. Short sentences and new words give elements for those who want to navigate across exciting subjects.Sunday Bilingual News is a customizing tool according to the beginner's needs or the goals for advanced students. Everybody can find great value in this digital newspaper because it includes illustrative materials with geographic, historic, economic and social components.The enthusiasm of the members of the Club at Broward Library and other Non-Spanish speakers always produce new stimulus and they are the reason of this Internet blog.